The PikMe-Up
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The PikMe-Up: a documentary on a 1980's phenomenon
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41 years old
Los Angeles
United States
Last Login: 11/23/2009
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The PikMe-Up's Film Bio
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| Website | damagedcalifornians.com/pikmeup/index.htm | | Directors | Andrew P. Crane, Scott Hessels, and P. James Keitel | | Festivals | Outfest (Los Angeles, 2006) | | Professional Affiliations | Open Brand Productions, Damaged Californians, UCLA Design|Media Arts, The American Cinematheque, Outfest |
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The PikMe-Up's Interests
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| General | Official Web Site
 In
the mid-1980s the coffeehouse movement in Los Angeles
was beginning with wild promise. A tattered Mid-Wilshire
storefront that was the PIKME-UP cafe became the
prototype for the coffeehouse subculture that started
as an unruly rebellion and exploded into a national
phenomenon. The PIKME-UP was a Bohemian revolution:
a happening of ideas poetry, music, art and performance
where a motley group of outcasts formed an unusual
community and an enduring family.
The
PIKME-UP utilizes an amazing wealth of source materials
- more than 5,000 photographs, over 200 video hours
of performances, hundreds of print elements and intimate
interviews with the patrons, owners, employees and
performers who made up this unique establishment. An
original approach with the source materials, as well
as segments on the fashions, music, and art of the
period, coupled with how our culture has changed in
life is represented in our film.
The
PIKME-UP not only captures and brings alive this
L.A. subculture in the 1980s, it explores
how our society
has changed since the masses now use the internet
and cell phones to find their communities,
stay in touch
and get news, information and entertainment - not
to mention a Starbucks on every corner. The
PIKME-UP was
a necessary gathering place for the GBLT communities,
celebrities, club kids, hipsters, musicians and
artists.
Go for a ride with us on this wild, eye-candy tour
of a legendary coffeehouse and the aftermath of
a culture without intimate meeting places.
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| | Music | Featuring a score by Roddy Bottum of Faith No More, appearances by Viggo Mortensen, John Fleck, Phranc, Luis Alfaro, Bob Forrest, Summer Caprice, Exene Cervenka, The Ringling Sisters, Glue, Glen Meadmore, plus music by Beck, Peggy Lee, Celebrity Skin, The Lullabies and more.... |
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The PikMe-Up's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Occupation: | Documentary Film |
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About me:
 The PikMe-Up
Directed By: Andrew P. Crane,
James Keitel, USA, 2006, video, 71 min. During the late 1980s, the Pikme-up cafe opened its doors on 6th off La Brea, starting in the process an underground bohemian revolution. The Pikme-up was no Starbucks, but a place where a happening of ideas, poetry and performance was the order of the day. Featuring music by Roddy Bottum, this eclectic look at a fertile moment in L.A. cultural history recalls the recent past with readings, concerts and a few undefinable events from the storefront-window stage by Viggo Mortensen, Vaginal Creme Davis, Sean deLear, Exene Cervenka, Possum Dixon, John Fleck, Phranc, Luis Alfaro and Summer Caprice. Take a funky ride to a wild time in L.A. history where a motley group of outcasts formed a unique community in a small coffeehouse where "the buzz wasn't from the coffee". - EM..
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